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You can't buy a hybrid cloud as a product nor as a service, and even if you could you would need to customise it for your unique requirements and constraints. The reality today is you need to buy the ingredients from a supplier then roll your own hybrid cloud and to manage this you need to put in place a Hybrid Cloud Manifesto.

The SPC-2 benchmark is a useful benchmark for bandwidth intensive sequential workloads, such as backup, ETL (extraction, translate, load) and large-scale analytics. Wikibon does a deep comparative analysis of the SPC-2 results, time-adjusting the pricing information to correct for different publication dates. Wikibon then analyses performance and price-performance together, and develops a guide to enable practitioners to understand the business options and best strategic fit. Wikibon concludes the Oracle ZS4-4 storage appliance dominates this high-bandwidth processing as of the best combination of good performance and great price performance at the high-end and mid-range of this market.

The thesis of the overall Wikibon research in this area is that within 2 years, the majority of IT installations will be moving to combine workloads together to share data using NAND flash as the only active storage media. This will save on IT budget and improve IT productivity, especially in the IT development function. Our research shows that these changes have the potential to reduce the typical IT budget by 34% over a five year period while delivering the same functionality to the business. The projected IT savings of moving to a shared-data all-flash datacenter for an organization with a $40M IT budget are $38M over 5 years, with an IRR of 246%, an annual ROI of 542%, and a breakeven of 13 months. Future research will look at the potential to maximize the contribution of IT to the business, and will conclude that IT budgets should increase to deliver historic improvements in internal productivity and increased business potential.

The Public Cloud market is still forming – but seems to be poised to soon enter the Early Majority stage of its development where user behavior, preferences, and strategies become more stable. Large enterprises are more discerning of Public Cloud IaaS offerings. Test and development appears to be a key entry point for them since scale, operational complexity, and security/compliance/regulatory demands require a more nuanced approach to Public Cloud for IaaS. Small and Medium enterprises have the greatest need for Public Cloud and should consider well-established, lower risk entry points to Public Cloud like SaaS, Email, and Web Applications before venturing into Mission Critical and IaaS workloads to help them navigate an increasingly complex and costly IT infrastructure environment.

7 Companies Hiring Node.js Developers

Braintree Payments

Braintree Payments is looking for a developer to work on a variety of projects, and the company isn’t shy about its use of Node.js, noting: “We build client libraries for integrating with Braintree in Ruby, Python, Node.js, PHP, Java, and .NET” and that its developers built a mesh client chat client in Node.js.

VMware

VMware is hiring developers to work on its Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service, which includes support for Node.js. One job asks for a developer with experience with “modern frameworks, programming models, and key web technologies like like Rails, Sinatra, Spring, Django, node.JS, eventmachine, Scala, Erlang, etc.”

Microsoft

Microsoft just started supporing Node.js on Azure. That means it’s going to need more developers to work on the language. This position for an engineer for the SDK requires “experience with web technologies such as PHP, Java, or node.js.”

Yahoo

As the former employer of Up and Running with Node.js author Tom Hughes-Croucher, Yahoo has a long history with Node.js. The company has multiple positions for people with experience in Node.js, including this one which requires “demonstrable experience” with a server side technology such as Node.js.

Coursekit

For those looking for more of a do-gooder opportunity, Coursekit is hiring a software engineer to work with “Python, node.js, Redis, MySQL, and a soon-to-be-open-source front-end CoffeeScript framework” to try to fix the education system. Check out this profile for more information on the company.

Voxer

Voxer is one of the most famous users of Node.js, and adoption of its push-to-talk mobile app is exploding. The company is looking for a server software engineer with Node.js experience. The job listing reads: “Node is still very new, so obviously nobody has 3 years of experience working with it yet, at least some experience with node is preferred.”

Joyent

About Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.